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Communications Supply buys Diversified W&C

Aug. 1, 2003
Communications Supply Corp. (CSC), Stamford, Conn., purchased Diversified Wire & Cable Technologies, Inc., Troy, Mich. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Communications Supply Corp. (CSC), Stamford, Conn., purchased Diversified Wire & Cable Technologies, Inc., Troy, Mich. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition of Diversified adds approximately $22.3 million in annual sales and several new locations to CSC's portfolio. In addition to its Troy headquarters, Diversified has locations in Nashville, Tenn.; and York, Pa. The acquisition expands CSC's operations to 19 locations throughout the U.S.

Dean Stanton, founder of Diversified, will lead the transition into the CSC fold. Jim Berger, one of Diversified's owners and sales manager, will be branch general manager for the Troy operation. Jeff Flint will continue as branch manager in Nashville, Tenn. Key members of the Diversified management and sales team will remain in place and own an equity interest in CSC along with other key CSC management.

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Doug has been reporting and writing on the electrical industry for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing since 1992 and still finds the industry’s evolution and the characters who inhabit its companies endlessly fascinating. That was true even before e-commerce, LED lighting and distributed generation began to disrupt so many of the electrical industry’s traditional practices.

Doug earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Kansas after spending a few years in KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism, then deciding he absolutely did not want to be a journalist. In the company of his wife, two kids, two dogs and two cats, he spends a lot of time in the garden and the kitchen – growing food, cooking, brewing beer – and helping to run the family coffee shop.

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